Noun

(en noun)

In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}

*, chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=(Frank Muir), chapter=1, isbn=0552141372

, title= A Kentish Lad , passage=For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.}}

In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.

A person acting on behalf of, or is representing another person.

Noun

(en noun)

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

* Shakespeare

Past hope! past cure !

* Bible, Luke xii. 32

I do cures to-day and to-morrow.

A solution to a problem.

* Dryden

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .

* Bishop Hurd

the proper cure of such prejudices

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

A process of solidification or gelling.

(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.

(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

* Chaucer

Of study took he most cure and most heed.

* Fuller

vicarages of great cure , but small value

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

* (rfdate) Spelman

The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.